My town has a wonderful teacher's store.  There are tons and tons of educational toys, games, supplies and teaching aids.  They also have a wonderful thing called Silly Saturdays.  Every second Saturday of the month they have activities for children to come and do.  This year the lady that puts it on has been mostly focusing on science.  She is so great.  She is enthusiastic, pulls the kids right in and has fun things for them.

She loves the Iditarod.  This month she took a break from science and focused on this incredible race.  She had each child look through her book that had all the mushers pictures and short bios.  The children were to pick a musher and make a pinny for their musher.  They did some other activities as well, all dealing with Alaska or the Iditarod.

The race starts March 7.  The next Silly Saturday will be 7 days into the race and she is going to see whose musher is where.

But she also sent us home with our very own race map, check-in sheet to track our musher, as well as other information. 

Cameron and I chose #32  Ramey Smyth for our musher.  It helped that he likes soccer.  LOL (He was #33 when we picked him but he has moved up.  I guess I will have to keep my eye on that.)

I may chose someone else to follow as well.  And, if our musher drops out or cannot complete the race, we should pick a new musher to follow to the end. 

I think this will be a great activity for us to enjoy.  If you want to participate and chose your own musher check out the official Iditarod site and chose from the list of mushers and let us know who you chose.